When I Am Weak

                      It has been my greatest inspiration for poetry, artwork, photography and everything else I do, my stroke broke me and God healed me in ways I thought would never happen. He brought me confidence when my flesh was weak, He brought me faithfulness when faithfulness in friends could not be found, He restored my courage when no courage could be seen. My faith is in His devoted love and His perfect plan.

New Ever Morning

The faithful love of the Lord never ends

    His mercies never cease

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Great is his faithfulness

    his mercies begin afresh each morning

                        Lamentations 3:22-23

                         Artwork By Ernie Kasper

Never Give Up

Never give up on doing good, keep pressing forward and hold onto God's promises!

By Design

Psalm 139:16

You saw me before I was born.

    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

    before a single day had passed.

That is the beauty of knowing God, knowing that He knows everything, past, present and future and yet with all that information, all that knowledge of our rights and wrongs, He loves us deeply and with such devoted grace through Jesus Christ his son. Never forget that He has everything perfectly planned out and what He sets in place, no one can silence, smother, crush or destroy...

I Will Be With You

I can't see how this will turn out...

It's that moment that makes us shake sometimes, especially when we are at our weakest moments, the moments that challenge our worst fears, our silent whispers but it's in those very moments that God speaks the loudest. He begins a good work in us and what He starts, He finishes! That's the comfort we can receive through each and every challenge that begs us to break, to give up, to throw in the towel. The real beauty is in God's perfect plan and His devoted compassionate love that abounds in wisdom and kindness...

Morning Light

Life has so many challenges...

Well I heard that when I was a little boy but man I never knew how much it would become the epicenter of everything I would do. There I was lying down, shaking, quivering and my mind felt like sand sifting through a strainer. My thoughts were out of place, my body was moving in the same direction, jolted, disjointed, marked by sudden jabbing motions. Everything was suddenly a different game, different rules and I had to learn how to master it without knowing the rules. I felt so alone at times, misunderstood but deep down in the heart of hearts I knew that God had it all in His hands and I was going to overcome this trial, this massive struggle called a stroke.

     Here it is nearly 10 years later and I'm running in Fort Langley, BC. Canada. Skipping while jogging and doing martial arts and parkour! Who would have thought that this brutal challenge would make my commitment to training become so strong and so deep. The seasons have changed and my life has grown much deeper and richer for it. I am pondering on all the blessings of this life and how God has comforted me in the loneliest trials and how my wife and kids have always looked much farther than my battle, deeper than my inability to walk, talk, read and write (back then) and now here I am doing impossible things and just loving it! Never say never...

A selfie before skip jogging for a 5 km distance
at the fort to fort trail in Fort Langley

Another Step In The Right Direction

     FEARLESS

     Some might say that fear encompasses the first step, after that moment it's just a matter of diligence and courageous living. I agree, the fear is in the unknown, the "what ifs" of our imagination. We fill our minds with "what ifs" and God encourages us to put all that aside and fill it with "By Faith" now the amazing thing about faith is this, the bible speaks of it in this beautiful description

1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1

That verse alone is so powerful and encouraging because it speaks of an assurance of what we do not see! God establishes His purpose in our lives and has solidified His plans and by these precious words we know that what God establishes, He finishes. Our job is to simply walk in it, pray in it, live in it and trust that God who is perfect in every way, who is deeply passionate about His children, the ones He loves with an uncompromising devoted love that never fails, that never tires, that never becomes weary. That is the God we serve and His promises are eternal and perfect and what He has started in you, He will finish.

Philippians 1:6

 6And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.